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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <267@twwells.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 88 02:18:48 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <1104@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
: But if you don't like the naked "1", how about this?
:
: foo =  malloc( strlen(s) + strlen(t) + sizeof('\0'));
:
: Tells it all.  And keeps the reader on track, not grepping around
: for macros.

How about sizeof('\0') is equal to the size of an integer, which is
unlikely to be 1?

Remember, in C, character constants are integer constants.

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Bill
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